indeahervi

রবিবার, ২ সেপ্টেম্বর, ২০১২

McIlroy shoots another 65 to take early lead

NORTON, Mass. (AP) ? The Deutsche Bank Championship has had a fair amount of heavyweight battles in its 10-year history. Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods were poised to deliver another one.

McIlroy went from one extreme to another on par 5s only 30 minutes apart, but steadied himself down the stretch for another 6-under 65 that gave him a two-shot lead among the early starters Saturday in the second round on the TPC Boston.

Woods played in the afternoon, and already was making a move up the leaderboard.

The TPC Boston is where Woods and Vijay Singh had a memorable battle on Labor Day in 2004, when Singh won to replace him at No. 1 in the world. Two years later, Woods closed with a 63 to rally from a three-shot deficit against Singh. And in the first year of the FedEx Cup in 2007, it was Phil Mickelson who played three rounds with Woods and wound up beating him by two shots.

Woods and McIlroy might be the next one.

McIlroy, who won the PGA Championship by a record eight shots at Kiawah Island three weeks ago, looked comfortable on the smoother greens of TPC Boston and had only one bad spell of back-to-back bogeys on his back nine to reach the midway point at 12-under 130.

"Everything seemed to work pretty well out there," McIlroy said. "I felt like I drove the ball a bit better today and hit more fairways, which gave me some more opportunities to make birdies. And I was putting well enough to take a few of those. Yeah, pleased with where I am and looking forward to the weekend."

The weekend is half over, as this FedEx Cup playoff event is known for its Labor Day finish.

McIlroy had a two-shot lead over Ryan Moore among those who played Saturday morning. Moore hit a brilliant approach into the par-5 18th for eagle to briefly take the lead, but he played the front nine in 1-over par and had to settle for a 68.

Seung-yul Noh (71), Jason Dufner (66) and Chris Kirk (70) were another shot behind.

Rickie Fowler made a clutch putt on his final hole, a 4-footer for par that gave him a 72. It was significant because he was likely to make the cut, giving him two more days to make an impression on Davis Love III before he announces his four captain's picks for the Ryder Cup on Tuesday.

Hunter Mahan had a 72 to end his untimely streak of two missed cuts, boosting his hopes of getting one of the four picks.

McIlroy wasn't much of a factor in the opening playoff event last week at Bethpage Black, where the greens were baked out by sunshine and nearly dead by the third round, making it difficult to score. The greens have been pure at the TPC Boston, and it showed in the scoring.

Then again, he didn't have to make putts from very far. McIlroy made three birdies from inside 10 feet ? one of them a tap-in on the 14th ? and he seized the lead on the par-5 18th. Even though the pin was to the front of the smaller, treacherous green, there was enough wind in his face that he could get 4-iron in the air and have it land softly. It rode a gentle slope to about 10 feet away and he made the eagle putt.

After an 18-foot birdie putt on No. 1, McIlroy was poised to get some separation on the field until he tried to hit a high cut with a 5-wood on the par-5 second. He pushed it too far, into the water, and made bogey.

"That was a really tricky little pin position there on the second," he said. "If you lay up, you're going to have to hit a really good shot to get it close to try and make birdie. I'm sure it played a little easier yesterday, but you'll probably see just as many bogeys as you do birdies there today."

On the next hole, his long putt from the fringe was weak and came up 8 feet short, and he missed that for another bogey. But that was that. He followed with back-to-back birdies to get back to 12 under, and made a 12-foot par putt on the eighth to keep from dropping another shot.

McIlroy attributed the improvement from last week to one thing.

"My putting," he said. "I wasn't very comfortable on the greens at all last week. They weren't the best surfaces. I think everyone saw that. This week, the surfaces are much better, and it gives you a little more confidence that you can roll your putts at the hole a bit more."

Dufner skipped The Barclays last week to avoid playing too much golf before the Tour Championship and Ryder Cup. He slipped in the FedEx Cup standings, but his game didn't fall off that much. He played without a bogey, picking up five birdies to stay in the mix. The only concern was tightness in his hamstring that creeps into his lower back, though he has managed just fine.

"Pretty low-stress round," he said.

Mickelson hit a 5-iron to a foot on the par-3 eighth for his second straight 68, leaving him six shots behind. Even so, it was his best two-day start to a tournament since the Houston Open at the end of March.

The top 70 in the FedEx Cup move on to Indianapolis next week for the BMW Championship. Among those likely to miss the cut, ending their FedEx Cup hopes, were Charles Howell III, K.J. Choi and Rory Sabbatini.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mcilroy-shoots-another-65-early-lead-183627224--spt.html

natalie wood van halen annalynne mccord billy the kid neville neville george lucas

Deficits fall in southern Europe. Progress?

Any deficit is a bad deficit, but Italy, Portugal, and Greece are taking bug strides in reducing their national debts.

By Stefan Karlsson,?Guest blogger / August 31, 2012

People walk past closed shops in downtown Rome earlier this month. Italy shrank its deficit by about two thirds in the past year.

Gregorio Borgia/AP/File

Enlarge

Here are the first half current account balance numbers for the first half of this year for the main four Southern European euro area countries, with the balance for the first half of 2011 in ( ).

Skip to next paragraph

iPad or MacBook Air for work?

iPad or MacBook Air for work?

I work away and we have wifi at work, we have a iMac and iPad 2 at home, question is do I get a iPad 3 or MacBook air 13.
I will be using it for emails, games, watching films/shows, Internet browsing, FaceTime with home. I may also need to do some office work.
What should I go for?

Source: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1432356&goto=newpost

cesar chavez winning lotto numbers lottery tickets mega lottery sag aftra mega mill power ball

শনিবার, ১ সেপ্টেম্বর, ২০১২

Mexico wastewater project uncovers Ice Age bones

Workers have discovered hundreds of bones belonging to Ice Age animals, including mammoths, mastodons and glyptodons, while digging to build a wastewater treatment plant north of Mexico City.

The bones could be between 10,000 and 12,000 years old and may include a human tooth from the late Pleistocene period, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History said Thursday.

Tusks, skulls, jawbones, horns, ribs, vertebrae and shells were discovered 20 meters (65 feet) deep in Atotonilco de Tula, a town in the state of Hidalgo, as workers built a drain, the institute said.

These remains belong to a range of species including mastodons, mammoths, camels, horses, deer and glyptodons, the armadillo's ancestor. Some bones may belong to bison, while others have not been identified.

Archeologists have worked for the past five months to recover the bones.

"It is the largest and most varied discovery of extinct megafauna found together in the Mexico basin," archeologist Alicia Bonfil Olivera said in a statement.

An anthropologist will have to confirm whether the tooth belonged to a human.

"It is not strange because we know that man already lived in the central Mexico region during that period," the archeologist added.

Source: http://phys.org/news265600577.html

new ipad release pregnant jessica simpson international womens day joe the plumber lra lra eric johnson

Government Grants Within The United States Humanities Sector

The humanities are defined as academic disciplines that primarily study the human condition. It includes the study of Archaeology, Comparative Religion, Ethics, History, Languages & Linguistics, Literature, Jurisprudence, Philosophy, History, Theory, and Criticism of the Arts, and finally Aspects of the Social Sciences Which Use Historical or Philosophical Approach.

The field of humanities employs methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as differentiated from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences.

In essence, the humanities is basically a way of interconnecting people, building linkages from generations and generations of people and cultures who have existed with and before each other.

It allows the people of the present to describe and understand how their ancestors lived. It enables them to distinguish what is essential in their current lives and what they can do to make things better.

In this regard, the field of humanities connects tribes, communities, and countries. And as a result, it helps us address the challenges that we face as individuals, as families, as communities, and as citizens of the United States of America.

For this reason, the US government gives great importance to the field of humanities. In fact, it has supported and empowered it by establishing a slew of agencies that are primarily tasked to attend to humanities-related concerns.

First up, is the National Endowment for the Humanities, otherwise referred to as the NEH. Established in the year 1965 under the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act, the agency is generally dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.

It seeks to accomplish its mission by administrating several initiatives and establishing grant programs such as the Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections Program, which seeks to assist cultural institutions meet the complicated challenge of preserving massive holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting preventive conservation measures that reduce deterioration and lengthen the useful life of collections.

On the other hand of the circle is the National Archives and Records Administration, more commonly known as the NARA. The NARA is an independent agency of the United States government that is responsible for preserving and documenting government and historical records including the National Archives.

Meanwhile, there also exists the National Park Services (NPS) which manages all of the country's national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.

The mission of the NPS is to "preserve the natural and cultural resources and values of the national park system for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations."

Source: http://prismart.com/articles/2343-government-grants-within-the-united-states-humanities-sector

karen handel hangout todd haley kareem abdul jabbar karl rove miramonte elementary school mark jenkins

Green-On-Blue Attacks Have Gotten So Bad In Afghanistan That Troops Are Building Safe Rooms

U.S. military units have resorted to building hardened safe rooms, or what they call "Alamos," to protect themselves from potential attacks from the soldiers and police officers they are training, according to a report from Stars & Stripes.

Troops have built the safe rooms as U.S. and NATO commanders receive almost daily reports of supposed Afghan security forces turning their guns on their trainers. U.S. military leaders have urged troops to maintain partnerships, but also use caution.

"Well, you have to take precautions" although close partnership is still the strategy, said Alexander Vershbow, the deputy Secretary-General of NATO and a veteran U.S. diplomat. "But you have to take precautions that won't undermine success."

The group would have "hardened areas that we could literally Alamo until reinforcements arrive," said Johnson, who was touring training areas in the states before returning to Afghanistan.

"It's something that we've always thought about, but with the increase in insider threats...I think what it's caused us to do is rehearse it," Johnson said, according to Stars and Stripes.

But Johnson, as well as Vershbow, stressed that improving the "cultural sensitivity" of U.S. troops to behavior that might be offensive to the Afghans was a key to the success of the transition of security responsibilities from the U.S.-led coalition to the Afghan forces.

"The bottom line is that maintaining a collaborative relationship is the formula that has worked," Vershbow said.

At least 45 coalition troops have been killed this year by individuals in Afghan police or army uniforms and the insider attacks "are of tremendous concern to everybody at NATO," Vershbow said.

"We have to "train our own troops to be more sensitive," he said. "In the broader scheme of things, our strategy is working."

Nearly a third of the U.S. troops killed this month in Afghanistan?12 of 38?have been victims of insider attacks. August has also been the worst month of the year for the coalition with a total of 48 troops killed thus far compared to 46 in July?the previous highest monthly total for 2012.

Despite the spike in insider attacks, both President Obama and Marine Gen. John Allen, the ISAF commander, last week stressed that closer cooperation with the Afghan security forces was vital to a successful transition that would allow the allies to withdraw all combat forces in 2014.

In a video briefing to the Pentagon Aug. 23, Allen said the current focus was on green-on-blue attacks.

?"But the real story here is green and green. Every day, hundreds of thousands of Afghan soldiers and police across this nation work and fight side by side with coalition troops to defeat our common enemies and protect the civilian population," Allen said.

Obama emphasized that U.S., NATO and Afghan forces must keep close contact, but those relationships must not put troops in vulnerable positions.

"And you know, part of what we've got to do is to make sure that this model works but it doesn't make our guys more vulnerable," Obama said. "We've got to make sure that we're on top of this."

The more frequent insider attacks have posed a challenging dilemma for troops on the ground and should focus the White House and the Pentagon on a faster withdrawal from a war that the polls show Americans no longer support, said Lawrence Korb, a military analyst at the Center for American Progress and a former assistant secretary of Defense.

"The troops are worried now about trying to protect themselves from the people they're trying to protect," Korb said. "That's an indication that we've reached the point of diminishing returns" in Afghanistan.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/alamos-protect-afghanistan-troops-from-green-on-blue-attacks-2012-8

mike martz hokies quadrantid norv turner jerry angelo work it amy chua

Aparna's Cookbook: Slow cooker recipes

Meat and veggies at low for 8 hrs. Before and after.

I am a great fan of slow-cooking. The flavors are retained, and you need less grease to facilitate cooking. A friend I made in Boston often baked me dinner (for about 2 hrs). At the end of the day, it felt delicious and very satisfying. Last night, I decided to put my slow-cooker to use and picked some random veggies from my pantry- most preferably non-starchy veggies like tomatoes, onions, celery, carrots, pepper and mushrooms etc. (Some recipes might call for potatoes though). I threw in a few mutton pieces that were marinating for a curry. (Yeah, totally random). Then I switched on the cooker and went to sleep. In the morning, I was greeted with a delicious aroma of the slow cooked goodness.

For beginners: 1. Resist the temptation to take a peek, though you might give a stir into one hour cooking.
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 2. Don't use frozen meat. Thaw well before you cook it.

It is a good option for traditional recipes that ask for long cooking times, ?perfect for a working man/woman with long day out with very little energy to spend in the kitchen after a tiring day at work, and even an?hassle-free?extra dish or two when you have guests coming over.

I will post recipes while I perform the experiments. If they go well, you will know it is safe. If some of them go ?awry, you will know what to avoid. Here's to cuisson lente.

Source: http://akcookbook.blogspot.com/2012/08/slow-cooker-recipes.html

adam lambert incendiary floyd mayweather winter solstice x factor finale pro bowl voting kindle fire update

রবিবার, ২ সেপ্টেম্বর, ২০১২

Recent posts

শনিবার, ১ সেপ্টেম্বর, ২০১২